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Sorry, Charlie, but a new kind of tuna is out to draw sales away from Star- Kist and other popular brands with an unabashed appeal to patriotism. Bearing a bright red-white-and-blue label, the newcomer is American Tuna. The producer, C.H.B. Foods of Los Angeles, proclaims that its product is "the only brand of tuna packed exclusively in the continental U.S. by a national tuna company...
Tuna canning once thrived on the West Coast, but the major firms moved operations to Asia, the Caribbean and other offshore sites to take advantage of cheap labor. Also, the Japanese have been exporting tuna to the U.S. Since 1977, Star-Kist, Van Camp and Bumble Bee have shut down California canneries...
C.H.B. Foods now stocks American Tuna in California, New York and Pennsylvania stores and hopes to sell nationwide by summer. Says Vice President Robert Allen: "American consumers can make a clear choice between buying American and buying something else." But Star-Kist can also claim to be selling American tuna, since some of its production is packed in Puerto Rico--a commonwealth that sends a nonvoting Representative to Congress--and in the U.S. territory of American Samoa...
...close presidential adviser who manages Carter's assets under a blind trust. (The President will keep his 241-acre peanut farm.) Neither Brother Billy nor Mother Lillian, who own the remaining third of the business, wants to run the warehouse, which has been operated since September by Gold Kist Inc., an Atlanta-based farmers' cooperative...
...less than Gaines Meal. Says Jewel President Walter Elisha: "Consumer response has been overwhelmingly favorable." That is not hyperbole. One morning, Star stacked 500 cases of no-name tuna in twelve of its suburban stores. The 6½-oz. cans sold for 59? each, v. 89? for Star-Kist. Though the food chain expected the supply to last a week, it was sold out by early afternoon...